Research, Plan, Implement: structuring work for Claude Code

When one prompt is not enough There is a particular way a single Claude conversation curdles when the work it carries is real. The first prompt is sharp, the next two are sharpish, and by the seventh exchange the model is no longer responding to the codebase — it is responding to the wreckage of its own earlier attempts. The work that started with a clean prompt is now competing with the residue of every misstep that preceded it. Read more